Rambles in Bible lands . ve under surrounding conditionsof life foreign to ours at all points. Men with us, whenthey shave, shave their faces, but never their the East they never let a razor touch theirface, but shave the whole of their head till it is perfectlybald, save one small lock, left by the Mohammedans onthe crown. We wear close-fitting, and in most casesfar from elegant, healthy, or comfortable , on the contrary, wear loose, flowing, most artistic,most sanitary, and most elegant clothing—their raimentnowhere compressing their person, except where, in thec
Rambles in Bible lands . ve under surrounding conditionsof life foreign to ours at all points. Men with us, whenthey shave, shave their faces, but never their the East they never let a razor touch theirface, but shave the whole of their head till it is perfectlybald, save one small lock, left by the Mohammedans onthe crown. We wear close-fitting, and in most casesfar from elegant, healthy, or comfortable , on the contrary, wear loose, flowing, most artistic,most sanitary, and most elegant clothing—their raimentnowhere compressing their person, except where, in thecase of men, women, and children, the girdle, the zonnar, CHANGELESS LIFE OF THE HOLY LAND 13 or kutntnerbund, is wrapped closely round the the significance of the various allusions togirding ; for neither work nor war, nor anything callingfor strenuous, active exertion, is possible with these long,loose, flowing garments if the girdle—often left off atother times—is not fastened on such occasions firmly. BEDAWEEN BY RUINS OF SAMARIA round the waist. And this in the case of women as wellas men. For, in doing this, the long kamise—as thewhite, loose, wide-sleeved shirt of the men, the Fellahheen,or villagers, and the somewhat similar long, indigo-bluerobe of the Fellakhat, the village women, is called,ordinarily, in the case of both men and women, comingdown to their heels—is by both men and women, at such i4 RAMBLES IN BIBLE LANDS times as they bind their girdle about them, taken up infront from between their feet, and tucked into the girdleso as to leave their limbs bare and unimpeded up to theknees. When we read of girding, we must think notonly of their fastening a long, loose, flowing, and impedingkamise firmly round them, but also of shortening it froma foot to a foot and a half, so as to take it out of theway of hindering any active effort. Thus the girdle,enabling them in this way to exert their strength, is put,by the figure of metonymy, for strengt
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